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"Opportunities for D.C. Growth Are ‘Greater Than Ever’"

“closing public housing [in a place like Cairo, Illinois] ... is the equivalent of losing the major employer in town and all the jobs and opportunity related to it,” Jenny Schuetz in the Wall Street Journal. Schuetz is a Fellow, Metropolitan Policy, Brookings Institution and Senior Scholar, Center for Washington Area Studies